[Sussex] continuing difficulties with Samba.

[Richie Jarvis]

John,

A share is when you enable a windows drive, directory or printer to 
others.  In windows, when you right-click on a drive, directory or 
printer, you should see something on the menu titled Sharing or 
something similar - click on this, and it allows you to set the sharing 
options (read, read-write, etc.)

In linux, the shares are defined in Samba, and define what 
directorys/drives/printers are available.  In your config you attached, 
this is an example of the share for your printer:

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/tmp/
   create mask = 0600
   printable = Yes
   browseable = No

The browseable=No line is what is stopping you from seeing anything 
under the workgroup on the Windows98 box - Browseable simply controls 
whether when you click through the My Network window it shows or not.  
Try setting Browseable=Yes, and then restarting Samba, and refreshing 
the window in 98 - it should appear.  You might ask why you would have 
browseable=No - the reason is that you can still get to a share, if you 
know it is there, without using the browse window to get to it.  Simply 
type the network address into the window to get to it, for example, your 
printers share address is \\<machinename>\printers - Try it, it should 
work even with Browseable set to No.

Hope that helps,

Richie